Wedding-warning, lots of pictures
Here we are, it's finally over. Every darn thing hurts, from my forearm which I burned on the oven to my feet from the silver heels. Ashley and kevin are honeymooning in Sarasota, Florida, she's already called to tell me how much fun she's having and how it looks like a Costa Rican jungle and they're going to walk on the beach and watch the sunset, then go back to their place and have fresh watermelon and grilled fish.
Anyway, yesterday was the day from he!!. Everything went wrong, from the beginning. I got up at 6:30 and went to the hall to do food prep because it's a Catholic hall and we couldn't get into it on Friday until after evening mass. So, we worked for a few hours, I left Elery with instructions, the phone rang, it was Ashley. Could I run to Walmart (the only game in town and I HATE the place) and pick up corsage pins, lacy ruffly socks for the little girls, bottled water for the bridesmaids, white ribbon and a pair of scissors? Yeah, sure. I go to the ATM to get cash, it jams, I have to wait for someone to come and fix it so I can get my withdrawal. I do my shopping, check out. Half way home the check engine light comes on in the Jeep. when I get home, I have no water because they are working on a new medical center in town and the water has been "temporarily shut off". No warning, of course. The phone rings, it's Ashley, people need to get into the hall and I have the key, can I come right back (20 miles). Um, no, I can't. I wash up, do my hair, get dressed, run back with the key, the place has already been unlocked by the caretaker.
I go to the church, deliver everything and lunch, it's about 80 degrees and Ashley is about to melt in 30 pounds of tuille. She's also sick to her stomack and afraid she's going to trip and fall. Amanda had Kevin's ring on her thumb and lost it and we searched the church for about half an hour until it was found in a flower girl's basket where Amanda had been filling baskets with flower petals.
Then people start coming in and Sherry (sheshebop) and Roger were there. I felt better immediately. I was sorry that Peppi didn't make it, or Nancy, but the gas prices would probably have required a bank loan anyway! We were still doing pictures outside on the lawn, here is Ashley and all the bridesmaids, that's Amanda right next to her.
Hey, chase, like the Thunderbird? (grin) That's what they took their drive around town in, sitting up on the back, and complete with police escort, lights and sirens, but that was after the ceremony.
Back at the church, we did more pictures, that's Makayla playing with the other little flower girl, Jaylynn. She's Kevin's cousin's daughter.
Ashley made it through without falling down and I didn't catch anything on fire lighting the unity candle. When the ceremony was over and the pastor announced the married couple, she tried to step down the stairs and was struggling. Kevin immediately stepped up the three steps, picked her up and carried her out. No chance of her falling down there, LOL.
OK, now the food related stuff. We had Joey's Killer Lasagna, everyone loved it. We had chicken alfredo with broccoli, not a huge hit, there was a lot left. The spinach/ricotta cannellini was a hit, but I still have about 100 in the freezer, uncooked, because I ran out of oven space. That's OK, we had enough. Meatballs in red sauce, big caeser salads with parmesan and croutons, glazed carrots that worked out very well with Helene's suggestion of just melted marmalade and a bit of butter, and they weren't soft, mushy, or puree! Bruschetta with garlic bread, hummus with pita chips and fresh vegetables trays to start, along with iced tea, coffee and punch.
No pictures, I was a little busy serving dinner, LOL, but maybe Sherry got some.
I did bake the black and white wedding cake. Bottom tier is LindaC's carrot cake. Middle tier is the sour cream lemon that someone posted here. Top tier is pistachio. All with black cake wraps, fondant covering and black and white fondant twisted rope edging.
I also used Colleenoz's chocolate cake recipe to make the police themed groom's cake:
And pixistix' hot milk cake, three layers, for the fire themed groom's cake:
this was the fondant crysanthemum that was supposed to be on the front of the wedding cake. It wouldn't stick with fondant or with royal icing. I even tried putting it on with toothpicks but the petals just folded over. Oh, and the "fondarific" fondant? Eh. It wasn't as bad as traditional fondant, but it sure wasn't good. Most people peeled it off, just like other fondant.
Ashley had a bit of trouble getting the knife through the fondant, but eventually they prevailed.
did the traditional feeding each other cake. Yup, food fight!
they cut the groom's cake with a fireman's axe. For those who haven't figured it out yet, Kevin is a full time police officer, also on the fire department part time.
Instead of favors (thank goodness I didn't have to can 150 jars of salsa!), they had a black and white candy buffet table:
Lovely black and white centerpieces. Nope, not my idea, you know I am not crafty, but I did buy the spools of black netting for the runners and that's as crafty as I get. They filled the centerpieces with black and white marbles,some water and a white flower, then some silver spirals of some type. The guys later used the centerpiece vases to drink beer, the glasses were not big enough!
Kevin had a little trouble finding the garter under all that dress....
My niece Savannah and Makayla, the Monkey Princess, treated us to some karaoke:
We didn't run out of food or liquor, and we had a good time. This morning I had water again, the check engine light on the Jeep went back off, and I have a big bottle of ibuprofen. Today was DAvid's birthday, so we had ice cream cake from Dairy Queen, I was not going to bake another cake, I just couldn't.
And so, I'm going to go take some of that ibuprofen and figure out why in the heck my right butt cheek aches. Elery says it was because by this morning my butt was dragging. (grin)
Annie
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